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HOWARD DANIEL WILLIS
Private First Class · U.S. Army
August 20, 1942 – March 7, 1968
Service recordHoward Daniel Willis, of Stonewall, Mississippi, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 7, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 43E, Line 50 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 43E · Line 50
Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- August 20, 1942
- Home of record
- Stonewall, Mississippi (Clarke County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 7, 1968
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
55 names on the Wall carry the date March 7, 1968; six of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 26 of its members that month.
He died in Gia Dinh Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 43E, Line 50
- NATHANIEL WILLIAMS JRLance Corporal · March 7, 1968
- JAN FRANKLIN WILSONCorporal · March 7, 1968
- LEWIS BRACY WILSONPrivate First Class · March 7, 1968
- EUGENE YOUNGPrivate First Class · March 7, 1968
Same unit, same day
- RALPH EDWARD CONSAVAGEPrivate First Class · Panel 43E, Line 42
From Stonewall
- BOBBY RAY WILLIAMSStaff Sergeant · December 29, 1966
Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.